If You Missed This Morning's Lyrid Meteor Shower, You Can Catch It Live NOW

The annual Lyrid meteor shower show is under way. It peaked this morning in Australia, but if you missed it, it should also be visible for the rest of the week.

The shower happens as Earth passes through a stream of debris from the comet Thatcher, which makes a full orbit of the sun every 415 years. The debris field produces up to 20 meteors per hour during the shower’s peak, according to NASA.